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I approach every restaurant with an open heart and mind, but I surrender my top rating grudgingly. Thus, as Restaurant L&E in Chester seemed early in the review process to be cruising toward five stars, I put it through a couple of additional tests. An outsid viewer might mistake that for some sort of favoritism, but I assure you, and a restaurateur would confirm, that it was actually a couple of extra opportunities for something — anything — to go wrong. Restaurant L&E passed every test admirably, establishing itself as one of Connecticut's truly elite restaurants. It wasn't just L&E's handsome antique-lined quarters, friendly, knowledgeable...

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